Class of 2018—What’s Next?

When the Class of 2018 graduates on May 12, it will cap off four incredible years of learning, growth, and transformation.

These students came to Macalester for a host of reasons—to challenge themselves academically, to immerse themselves in a global community, to compete in a sport at the college level, or because they visited campus as a high school student and simply fell in love. Over four years here, they explored the Twin Cities, volunteered with nonprofits, conducted and published original research, changed their majors and added a minor (or two), discovered their passions and found their callings.

Now they’re heading off into the world, carrying with them the lessons learned in and out of the classroom as they pursue careers in tech, enroll in graduate school, manage nonprofit work, accept officer roles in the military, volunteer with the Peace Corps, conduct research with the NIH, and more.

A number of grads will be joining prominent organizations and companies like Google, the Mayo Clinic, and Americorps, while others will continue their educations at universities including New York University, the University of California–Berkeley, and the London School of Economics.

Here, by major, is a sampling of where the Class of 2018 will be putting to work their gifts, curiosity, and knowledge.

Biology

Jaime Hasama, Kipsu

Joseph Harman, Rebiotix

Jared Taitt, Okada Lab at University of California–San Francisco

Lea Davidson, State Department Critical Language Scholar

Kelsey Porter, Exploration Summer Programs

Matthew Glasenapp, University of California–Santa Cruz

Danny Baumann, Phoenix Company

Chemistry

Caroline Duncombe, National Institutes of Health, Tuberculosis Research Section

Chinese

Mary Fisher, UnitedHealth Group

Economics

Emma Toomer, Halfaker & Associates

Alex Baretta, Diversant LLC

Chen Jianhong, Ecolab

Clara Baumann, Piper Jaffray

Genevieve Benford Gregorich, Federal Reserve Bank

Gupta Anandi, Analysis Group

Jacob Burke, TD Securities

John (Gunnar) Doak, US Bank

John Buan, United Health Care

Joshua Doyle, Ernst & Young

Lily Stein, Evive

Tristan Springer, Ovativ Group

Van Anh Thi Le, Analysis Group

Cash Mcgregor, Clinical Scribes LLC

Aaron Imholte, UnitedHealth Group

Alex Baretta, Diversant LLC

English

Mary Kenney, EXPLO at Yale

Environmental Studies

Shelby Whiterby, Environmental Engineering at the University of California–Berkeley

Zach Moore, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality

Carmen Garson-Shumway, Peace Corps

Elliot Tanin, 4UR Ranch

Geography

Lee Guekgazian, University of California–Los Angeles

Elizabeth Roten, Metropolitan Council

Linguistics

Carolyn Siegman, Critical Language Scholarship, South Korea

Hannah Gray, Epic

Alison Chi, Capital One

History

Mara Steinitz, Repair the World Fellowship as a Food Justice Fellow in Detroit